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This book explores how introductory methods shaped school practice and intellectual activity in various fields of thought of the Early Imperial Age and Late Antiquity. The isagogical crossroads—the intersection of philosophical, philological, religious and scientific introductory methods—embody a fascinating narrative of the methods regulating ancient readers' approach to authoritative texts and disciplines. The strongly innovative character of this book consists exactly in the attempt to explore isagogical issues in a wide-ranging and comprehensive perspective—from philosophy to religion, from medicine to exact sciences—with the aim of detecting connections, reciprocal influences, and interactions shaping the intellectual environment of the Early Imperial Age and Late Antiquity.

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Author:   Anna Motta ,  Federico M. Petrucci
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   164
Weight:   0.597kg
ISBN:  

9789004506183

ISBN 10:   9004506187
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   20 January 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction: Towards the Isagogical Crossroads  Anna Motta and Federico M. Petrucci 1 Isagogical Conceptions in the Peripatetic Exegesis of the Post-Hellenistic Age: Aspasius and the Others  Federico M. Petrucci 2 A Middle-Platonist Plato: Introductory Schemata and the Construction of a System in Diogenes Laertius  Franco Ferrari 3 The Nature of Apuleius’ De Platone: An Isagoge?  Justin A. Stover 4 Isagogic Patterns in Porphyry (Isagoge and Vita Plotini)  Irmgard Männlein-Robert 5 From the Stoic Division of Philosophy to the Reading Order of Plato’s Dialogues  Anna Motta 6 Interpretive Strategies in Proclus’ Isagogical Remarks on the Timaeus  Gerd Van Riel 7 Eusebius and the Birth of Christian Isagogical Literature  Sébastien Morlet 8 Prolegomena to Medicine: The Role of the Hippocratic Aphorismi  Giulia Ecca 9 Isagogical Questions in Hipparchus’ Commentary on the Phaenomena  Victor Gysembergh 10 Musical Eisagōgai  Eleonora Rocconi Appendix: Gaudentius, Introduction to Harmonics. Introduction and Translation  Andrew Barker Bibliography General Index Index Locorum

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Anna Motta (Ph.D. 2012, Salerno) teaches Ancient Philosophy at the University of Naples “Federico II” and was the PI of a DFG project devoted to isagogical issues at the Freie Universität Berlin. She published the volumes Prolegomeni alla filosofia di Platone (Rome 2014) and λόγους ποιεῖν. L’eredità platonica e il superamento dell’aporia dei dialoghi (Naples 2018). Federico M. Petrucci (Ph.D. 2012, Pisa) teaches Ancient Philosophy at the University of Turin. He is interested especially in Plato and the Platonist tradition, and his publications include a monograph on Taurus of Beirut (London & New York 2018) and a commented edition of Plato's Timaeus (Milan 2022).

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